Cultivator



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELLIS PATTERSON, OF OARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.

CULTIVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,707, dated December7, 1886.

Application filed August 23, 1886. Serial No. 211,654.

(No model.)

1' 0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLIs PATTERSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Gartersville, in the county of Bartow and State of Georgia,have invented new and useful Improvements in Cultivators, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cultivators; and it consists ofthe peculiar combination and novel construction and arrangement of theVarious parts for service, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth,and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a cultivator embodying myinvention, Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is aside view. Fig. 3 is acentral vertical sectional view taken longitudinally through the tongue.Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal section taken through theplow-standard.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference denotecorresponding parts in all the figures, A designates the central beam ofthe machine, forming the tongue to which the draft is applied, and whichcarries an inclined vertically-disposed standard, B, at its rear end, towhich is secured a transverse brace bar or rod, 0, which is secured atits extremities to inclined handles D, the lower ends of which aresecured to the beam A on opposite sides thereof.

E E designate horizontal bars, which are arranged transversely acrossthe beam, and are pivotally connected thereto at their middle by meansof transverse bolts 6, which pass through the bars and beam and havesuitable securing-nuts upon the threaded ends thereof. The transversebars are arranged parallel with each other, and they are provided withlongitudinal slots f in their extremities, as shown.

G G designate the standards, which are ar' ranged on opposite sides ofthe beam A, and which connect the front and rear transverse bars, E E,together. These standards G G carry shovels or blades 9 at their lowerends, of any approved pattern, and they are preferably curvedlongitudinally, as shown, and each of the said standards has horizontalbars H formed integral therewith, the bar H and the standard beingdivided into two side pieces by a continuous longitudinal slot oropening,

h. The standards and bars are formed or made of a single piece of metal,and they are provided with a connecting block or bar, h, that liesbetween the parallel sides h of the bar and standard.

The bars Hare arranged beneath the outer extremities of the transversebars E E and the front ends of the bars H, and the ends of the bar E arepivotally and adjustably connected together by a through bolt, J, thatpasses through the slots in the said bars, and has a nut, j, on itsthreaded end. The bars H and the transverse bar E are adj ustably andpivotally connected together by means of a through-bolt, K, which passesthrough the block h and the slot f of the rear transverse bar, E, thesaid bolt having a nut, k, on its threaded end and a washer, is,interposed be tween the nut and the bar E, as shown in Fig. 3. It willthus be seen that the front ends of the bars H can be adjusted laterallyof the beam A and independently of each other by merely loosening thenut is and then moving the pivot-bolt in the slot f of the bar E, andthe rear end of the bar H can be likewise adjusted with relation to thebeam A. The bars H can thus be arranged parallel with the beam A, orwith their front ends nearer to the beam and their rear ends fartheraway from the same, and vice versa, thus adapting the bars H and thestandards to lie or be arranged at an angle to the beam and the line ofdraft of the cultivator.

L designates washers which are interposed between the nuts of thepivot-bolts J and the bar E, and these washers have integral books I, towhich are connected the rear ends of stop chains or ropes M, theopposite front ends of which are connected to rearwardly-extending hooksm, that are aflixed to the under side of the beam A, as is obvious.

By means of the adjustable standards the shovels can be adapted forcultivating cotton and other plants in rows of different widths, and thesaid shovels can also be adjusted to work upon the sides of the hills orrows, or in the furrow between the hills, as may be necessary ordesirable, according to the nature and size of the plant to which it isadapted for cultivating.

By adjusting the bars H nearer to the beams atthe front ends the shovelswill throw the soil away from the plants, and by adjusting the frontends away from the beam and the rear ends of the bars closer to the beamthe shovels will throw the dirt onto the roots of the plants.

By my improved cultivator the plants can be worked at one operation andwithout requiring the device to be drawn through the field more thanonce.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a cultivator, the combination of central beam, the transverseparallel beams E, pivotally connected at their middle to the centralbeam and having the slots in their ends, the slotted beams H, arrangedon opposite sides of V ELLIS PATTERSON.

\Vitnesses:

J osHUA KINNETT, FRANK P. DURHAM.

